The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sysadmins of the world, unite! a call to resistance
Finally, the world is aware of the threat of mass surveillance and control, but we still have a fight on our hands, and that fight is both technical and political. Global democracy is not going to protect itself. There has never been a higher demand for a politically-engaged hackerdom. Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange discuss what needs to be done if we are going to win. The first part of this talk will discuss the WHAT? and the WHY?: the historical challenge we face, and how we are called to resistance. We are living in a defining historical moment.
Phi Beta Iota: Activist organizations have grown by 30% — we are at the end of the second era of national “intelligence” as covert action and sustained idiocy. We are at the beginning of ethical citizen activism empowered by digital access superior to that of the retarded industrial-era governments and corporations. Below is 31:38 – a primer on how this generation of digital literati is thinking about non-violent revolution.
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The number crunch: Will Big Data transform your life – or make it a misery?
The age of Big Data is upon us. Fuelled by an incendiary mix of overblown claims and dire warnings, the public debate over the handling and exploitation of digital information on an astronomically large scale has been framed in stark terms: on one side are transformative forces that could immeasurably improve the human condition; on the other, powers so subversive and toxic that a catastrophic erosion of fundamental liberties looks inevitable.
I sometimes think I could drop all of my technical Twitter follows except for @kdnuggets and that would be more than enough to keep me busy. Today he mentioned MassBigData, a statewide initiative to open government data for exploitation. What used to happen inside 128 has spread as far west as Worcester.
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Iāve long advocated for expanding our national rail network and replacing the city networks, which once spanned the entire country from Long Island to Milwaukee. Hereās what the state of Massachusetts makes available in terms of transportation data as part of the initiative:
Continue reading “Neal Rauhauser: MassBigData Opens Government”
Yale Online Course Catalog Update
I read āYale Censored a Studentās Course Selection Website. So I Made an Unblockable Replacement.ā The author seems to be a Yale student. Excitement will definitely ensue. Also, I am encouraged that the workaround is a Google Chrome extension. Good news for students who want to use a popular browser to respond to administrative actions. Perhaps a Googler will help out in the spring?
Hereās the passage I noted:
Banned Bluebook never stores data on any servers. It [the code] never talks to any non-Yale servers. Moreover, since my software is smarter at caching data locally than the official Yale course website, I expect that students using this extension will consume less bandwidth over time than students without it. Donāt believe me? You can read the source code. No data ever leaves Yaleās control. Trademarks, copyright infringement, and data security are non-issues. Itās 100% kosher.
Yep, kosher.
Stephen E Arnold, January 20, 2014
Previous Yale Report:
Stephen E. Arnold: Yales Censors Superior Course Catalog Made By Its Own Students
Interview conducted by PESN's Sterling Allan on the progress of Brillouin Energy Corporation specifically, and the state of the Cold Fusion landscape generally.
Wages For Facebook? Maybe Itās Not So Crazy
Posted: 20 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST
Swarm Economy ā Zacqary Adam Green:āOn the one hand, the āWages for Facebookā manifesto currently sweeping the web was never meant to be taken literally.
The idea that a free social networking service should pay its users for their ālaborā is, at face value, ridiculous. But underneath the sensational language, thereās something to this notion of Facebook as an exploiter.
The premise of the boisterous, all-caps manifesto is laid out in its first paragraph:
Continue reading “Rickard Falkvinge: Facebook to Pay Users?”
